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The Jam is over, but I just played your game and I should say, you really put a lot of work on the story, character's and dialogs. It's already possible to see a bit of the world and character dynamics that are there and you have laid a great foundation for an interesting RPG story.

I also like that the protagonist, or at least the player character, is an older guy. Usually JRPGs have young protagonists or cast in general, so it's a breath of fresh air to be in control of someone who's already seen his fair share of life and may dive into some different aspects of it.

I ran into a bug with how you transition from one scene to another, where I started a dialog event with a character and at the same time was taken to another scene and it soft-locked the game. That's the only thing I feel could be majorly improved on.

All-in-all, great story focused entry, especially amazing with you doing it alone and, apparently, coding every bit by yourself.

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Thank you so much for your feedback! This is a setting I've been kicking around in my head for a few years now and I thought it would be fun to try to make a little game in that setting for the jam. I had never done a town scene before, and ended up fussing on so many collision and layer details on the town map I didn't end up implementing most of what I wanted to (like the entire action scene I had planned for the wagon duty second half). I Also ended up spending a lot of time developing the systems for both the town scene, as well as the entire action scene which didn't come to fruition, and as a result I ended up kind of teaching myself Ink and writing most of the dialogue during an all-nighter right before the jam ended.

I'm really happy with the response to the story, characters, setting, and dialogue, considering how much of that dialogue was written last-minute no-sleep. Getting #19 in Story despite my inability to manage my dev time and fully execute my ideas has inspired me, and I'm really thankful for that response. I agree that JRPG-style games suffer from a lack of older protagonists! It's not like we humans get (completely) uninteresting after hitting 25! Anyhow, I plan on continuing on and expanding this setting with these characters, and hope people look forward to it!